I find speaking and music to be the most distracting. Non-human sounds like wind, chirping birds, and rain are OK.
I frequently wear noise-canceling headphones to help improve my concentration. Sometimes I use them by themselves, but for particularly obnoxious stuff (like the neighbors across the alley who think the whole neighborhood wants to listen to their music with them) I'll use the noise-canceling headphone in conjunction with a white noise generator app on my iPod.
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